Taxi Driver Online

Like the Inverness runner, makes you wonder if there's more to this than a single episode of smoking a fag


Newport taxi driver caught smoking in his cab left with £450 bill

https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/ ... -450-bill/

A TAXI driver caught smoking in his cab left was left fuming when he was slapped with a £450 legal bill.

Mohammed Ghanfar Hussain, 41, was taken to court by Newport city council for having a sneaky fag in a Toyota Avensis car on Nash Road.

He was spotted smoking a cigarette by one of the authority’s community safety wardens on April 23.

Hussain, of Exeter Street, Newport, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Health Act.

The taxi driver was fined £120 at Cwmbran Magistrates’ Court and ordered to pay £301.56 costs and a £34 surcharge.

He will pay the total amount of £455.56 at a rate of £30 a month.

He would have been offered a fixed penalty fine, but clearly he decided to have his day in court.

IMO a pure 100% mug.

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he was probably doing it to make a point smokers do feel unfairly penalised even if in reality there's nothing unfair about it

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector